What to Know Before You Shop for Pet Food

Understanding the confusing regulation of pet food made easy (well, easier). Association for Truth in Pet Food provides consumers with ‘What to Know Before You Shop for Pet Food’, a pet food educational booklet.

Choosing the right food for your pet is one of the most important decisions a consumer makes. Making that decision is challenging because pet food speaks a different language than human food. The term ‘chicken’ means one thing in human food, but could mean something very different in pet food. The words ‘Dinner’ or ‘Formula’ have specific meaning in pet food names. What is ‘crude protein’? What is a ‘meat meal’?

Association for Truth in Pet Food (ATPF) has compiled a booklet for consumers explaining many of the top confusing issues in pet food. Though not all inclusive (not sure there is a book big enough to explain it all), our goal with the booklet is to provide consumers a foundation to the ‘truth’ in pet food. Click Here to view.

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Joan Johnston
Aug 09, 2016

IS THIS TRUE?

Currently there are no human grade
canned pet foods. There are moist pet
foods that are human grade, sold frozen
in tubs. Because canned foods are
so popular in human food, canned pet
food could easily become human
grade if the manufacturer followed all
food regulation (human grade ingredients
and supplements). But to our
knowledge there are no human grade
canned pet foods currently.

Yes. In the past there was a canned pet food made in a human food facility, but that company sold and the new owners do not manufacture in a human food plant. To my knowledge, no canned pet food is human grade right now.

Love it! Can I purchase several pamphlets as I am always being asked what I feed my poodles and my first reply is human grade food? Would love to have a few to give to people who ask that question. Thank-you Facebook hacked again, second time this year, but they also got my phone. Lorraine Penick Paris

I got this info off Weruva’s site. I’m a bit confused! So does this mean that their food is or isn’t “human grade”?

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Is Weruva human grade?

Though many brands use the term “human grade” to describe their ingredients, “human grade” is not defined by the pet food industry or by pet food regulators. Sure, a human could eat the ingredients in pet foods, but are the same quality ingredients actually being used in products for people?

Not only do we use ingredients that truly go into products for people, we also make our pet food in a human food facility according to international human food standards. As it is not defined, we avoid the term “human grade” and instead provide the details and facts about our ingredients and processes and let our customers make the decision. We best describe our foods as “Weruva Grade!”